Amid the Reserve Bank of India increasing the repo rate, home loans in India have become more expensive in 2023. While nearly all banks have implemented this rate hike in their home loan interest, … READ FULL STORY
ICICI Bank External Benchmark Lending Rate (I-EBLR) is referenced to RBI policy repo rate with a mark-up over repo rate, ICICI Bank said in a notification. The one-year MCLR now stands at 8.30 per … READ FULL STORY
With an aim to offer borrowers with a higher level of transparency and cost effectiveness, the banking system has from time to time introduced various rate-setting methodologies, based on which loan interest rates are … READ FULL STORY
The Coronavirus pandemic has forced banks in India to bring home loan interest rates to a record 15-year low, in a bid to boost consumer sentiments, at a time when the economy has been … READ FULL STORY
To boost demand in the real estate and construction sector, which employs the largest number of people in India after agriculture, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reduced its lending rate to 4% … READ FULL STORY
New home buyers are often in a dilemma, over whether they should apply for a loan from a housing finance company (HFC) or a bank. The recent liquidity crisis being faced by non-banking finance … READ FULL STORY
Although the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has effected several reductions in the repo rate (the rate at which banks borrow from the central bank), lending rates have not witnessed a corresponding change. Home … READ FULL STORY
Mehul Chopra IT consultant and corporate trainer, Mumbai I live in Mumbai now but I plan to invest in a property in Pune. Improvements in connectivity and infrastructure matter to me the most. Pune … READ FULL STORY
September 5, 2019: The RBI has made it mandatory for banks to link all new floating-rate loans for housing, auto and MSMEs to external benchmark like repo rate from October 1, a move aimed … READ FULL STORY
The RBI had, in June 2019, reduced the key policy rate, making it the third time in a row that it did so, in the calendar year 2019. Till June 30, 2019, the repo … READ FULL STORY
After repeated nudging by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the nation’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI), on April 9, 2019, followed its smaller peers to lower the lending rates by a … READ FULL STORY
In order to tide over temporary liquidity crunch, banks borrow from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), against government securities. The rate at which the RBI lends money to banks, is known as the … READ FULL STORY
On February 7, 2019, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced a cut in the repo rate by 25 basis points, during its bi-monthly monetary policy meet. With this, the repo rate now stands … READ FULL STORY
